welcome to a journey through european football history. "about" explains briefly what this is supposed to be and become, and the actual posts and rankings can be found under "sixties" etc. have fun, football nerd!

season reviews

starting with the 1960/61 season, this website will progressively provide comprehensive season reviews, both internationally and nationally. each season will have a post on the european cup (later uefa champions league), the cup winner's cup & uefa cup, and national league and cup highlights. these results are the basis of the many rankings found in that specific link, season after season.

rankings

for many years, i have been evaluating european football history since the beginning of the european cup in 1955. i have been perfecting my formulae and now feel confident that i have found a way to evaluate and compare achievements in all european leagues and cups, national or continental. the result of this work are commented rankings beginning in 1960, five years into the european cup era.the rankings presented are briefly described below.

the whole system is based on the evaluation of the club's performances in continental competitions, which are:european cup, inter-cities fairs cup, cup winner's cup, uefa cup, uefa champions league, uefa europa league.these results reflects back to the national leagues and cups via an end-of-year 5-season country ranking, similar to uefa's coefficient, but different in the sense that it is more up-to-date: this means that the ranking is weighted in favor of the most recent seasons. The first season in a five-year cycle only has around 6% input, whereas the last lies at around 40%.so the results themselves produce three rankings: all-time continental ranking up to that year for clubs, current continental rankings (which only take continental performances into account) and the current league ranking, as described above.from the league ranking, national rankings are produced. these only include national league and cup results, and two rankings exist here: the all-time national ranking and the current national ranking, using the same weighted 5-year cycle described above.when adding the continental points with the national ones, the two main rankings are formed. the official all-time club ranking (up to a given year) and the official current club ranking, which combines continental and national achievements.the country ranking also exists in an all-time form.and there are also two additional all-time rankings: one that only takes a club's presence in an official end-of-year current club ranking into account, and another which does the same to the league rankings.don't worry - these will be further explained and commented as they are being posted on this website.we start with the 1960 rankings involving everything that has just been explained.have fun reading, football nerd!

contact

I am a football lover and a mathematician.Please feel free to contact me at gcs@oegym.de for more information on my rankings and methods.